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14642072 No.14642072 [Reply] [Original]

The moment you start interpreting the Book of Genesis as "it's just a bunch of stories and metaphors bro", your entire religion and tradition seem to crumble

>> No.14642090

>>14642072
Why is that? Many influential early Christians didn’t believe in a literal 6 day creation, like Augustine.

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>>14642072
you mean the way the church fathers interpenetrated it in the earliest days of Christianity?

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Try this: It's the mythology and traditional laws of the Jewish people, best read to provide cultural context for the New Testament. The true events of Creation are mysterious and unknown, and the material was corrupted by material evil soon after. The Jews simply created a mythology to fill in the gaps, then unknowingly merged the figures God and the similarly-powerful Demiurge and treated the resulting character as a sort of patron deity. When God's messenger Christ said he didn't come to overturn Mosaic law, he meant that he didn't come to completely overturn their traditions and uproot their entire culture but rather to teach the truth of God and correct some misconceptions his people had. If Christ were to appear in 19th century Germany, he would have said that he came to teach them some truths rather than to take away their pork sausages, Prussian legal tradition, and various cultural rites. Because Christ was gathering followers like crazy and making them look foolish, the sanhedrin rabbis of the day feared losing their power, influence, and lifestyles. They denounced him and used their influence to manipulate Pilate into having him executed. Pilate begrudgingly obliged, but mainly because he was a veteran and a colonial administrator and was well aware of the carnage that would ensue at the hands of Roman legionaries if the Judaean powers that be kicked up a stink and caused unrest. This is why Pilate was so terse with rabbis who wanted him to add a negation over "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews," and why he later converted and begged God's forgiveness. It all makes sense that way.

>> No.14642212

>>14642208
>those gas prices
I wanna go back.

>> No.14642521

>>14642090
>>14642145
Have you actually read Augustine or Origen? Be honest.

>> No.14642538

>>14642521
yes.